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Ouavanor according to bread for the world website, we live in the world's wealthiest nation, yet 13% of people living in the united states live in poverty. nearly 1 in 4 children live in households that struggle to put food on the table. that's 16.7 million children. the most direct way to reduce hung inner the united states is through the national nutrition programs. now, hold it right there. i new that that story isn't going to grab anybody's attention on a big time talk show. right? you got to talk about other stuff. about how you screwed somebody in a land deal and you can do a great job i...

Highlight and him mate some of the duplication could be very real. when you've got 47 job training programs costing $18 billion a year through nine different agencies, and we haven't done anything about it, and the factor is we don't know if our job raining is doing any good because there's no metrics on it, if you have 80 programs -- let me read you a couple. 173 tax depeexpenditures tha. how much of it are we duplicating for the same thing some there's programs like $58 billion on 100 separate programs run by five different d.o.t. agencies, department of transportation agencies. we've got a ...

They would look at entitlement spending and the republicans have taken military spending pretty much off of the table and dealing with such a tiny part of the product. i don't think this we really can expect anything serious to happen from either side. no matter how much the republicans are talking about all of these cuts. they've taken so much of the spending off the table in terms of, i know, are they looking at medicare, social security, defense cutting. >> you can't say you're making serious cuts and on top of it, they want to extend the bush tax cuts permanently, which you, costs the coun...

He's taking medication, but, quote, feeling rough. clooney will appear tonight, and we'll talk to piers morgan next hour and have much more about george clooney's condition right here in "the situation room." michelle obama and walmart are joining forces. the first lady was as a suburban d.c. walmart today to announce the let's move campaign. under the initiative, walmart will make healthier food items like fruits and vegetables more affordable, also will put seals on the packages identifies healthier foods and will beef of support for nutrition programs. an apple a day may keep the doctor...

Lunches and programs that help low-income kids with food. they ought to do a better job. ironically the senate's proposing to take money for -- more money from food stamps to pay for school lunches. >> maybe you get relief for schools when this bill passes, but when you look at the unemployment rate or number of people who are suffering from food insecurity, a large number of people, increased pressure, what do you do about it? >> well, hunger is a fixable problem. this is not that hard to do. but to fix it, part of the solution is the national nutrition programs. instead of cutting those prog...